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So I just pulled a 75 hour week. Just plain exhausted. Lost my staff, and life has been crazy. I definitely was to the point of quitting. Stress, lack of sleep, bitchy customers, and no help made it for a long stressful week. In the end I’ll have a nice paycheck. I had yesterday and today off so hopefully I will be well rested. We’ve replaced the entire crew, and I’m the only one left from the old crew. I have an excellent staff now, and things are looking better now. All I want is two more good cashiers and I’ll be happy.

Now that we have fresh staff, that actually care, we can finally get things back to normal. We hired 2 men and 2 women that all get along well with both myself and my manager. So far both have been everything we hoped for. Now comes their training and I’m sure they will be able to pick up everything easily.

All I can say is thank you Lord for getting me through this week of hell.

***** For the up to date tutorial go to my self hosted blog @ blog.shaffner.net *****

So what we’re going to do is take a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04.1 (latest available at time of post) and convert it to Linux Mint 13. I will be using the official repositories and not a PPA.

This is a combination of several posts I found related to removing Unity and installing MDM and Cinnamon. Of course I added my own tweaks to it. I think this process is relatively quick and easy. I may have missed a couple things to remove from the “Ubuntu” installation. But basically we removed just about everything “Ubuntu” branded.

Through this process I will point out anything I would consider optional. But if you really want the full Linux Mint experience I recommend that you follow this tutorial to the letter. Depending on your system and connection speed this only takes approx 20 – 30 minutes. I tested and created this tutorial on a Virtual Maching with a single CPU and 2GB RAM. I am also runing my system live with these alterations. Haven’t had an issue yet.

Step 1 – Update / Upgrade

Update everything to the latest. Making sure that you answer yes to everything.

Upgrade kernel & everything else (my recommendation)

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --yes dist-upgrade

Safe Upgrade – doesn’t touch kernel

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --yes upgrade

Now you’ll wait for a few, mostly depending on connection speed. After everything has been update reboot your system. You can just type: sudo reboot now in terminal.